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Triple alliance joined with 2 city states, military leaders, need great power in Aztec society.
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Contolled extensive trade network the economic heart of the city was the huge market of Tatelolco
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Religion played a major role the most important rituals involved the sun God it Hitzilopchiti. They think he made the sun rise everyday, only nourished by human blood,
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System of government based on age-old patterns of community cooperation small groups of people called dylly worked for the common good. built irrigation canalse agrucyltural ferraces
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incan state controlled most economic activity regulating the production and distrbtuion of goods. land was organized into upper and lower geographical units
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religion helped reinforce the power of the state. incan worshiped fewer gods than the aztecs.